My first reaction to that idea was that it's completely awesome, but I think maybe they'd do that vindictive thing schools do where they secretly blacklist the kid and look for other reasons to get at him later on.
Interesting linking this move to parenting. I guess this whole mess reinforces the idea of high school being little more than daycare. Instead of focusing on the teaching, they're working to extend their babysitting services. Is this like the beaurocratic equivalent of featuritis? Or is it some sort of megalomania that afflicts every single civil servant who gets a sniff of power?
Important context missing from summary: students have to submit to this as a pledge, and it's compulsory for all students wishing to participate in extra curricular activities. It's no less ridiculous for that, but it's still an important detail because it's not as generalised as it sounds here on Slashdot. Back to the flaming...
The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is almost an oxymoron
Well, congratulations Captain Obvious, you've successfully defended yourself against a point that nobody had made. Now if you could just deal with the concern that the school district is overstepping its bounds and attempting to exercise too much control over kids' lives, we might have some sort of discussion on our hands.
The ambiguity of the criteria doesn't help either: 'Illegal' is one thing, but 'inappropriate' is another one they use (though not mentioned in the summary) and more or less gives them a license to discipline (oh, but only after some undisclosable anonymous source expresses 'concern', of course). I'm willing to bet that illegal means mostly slander against school employees, and inappropriate is 'anything else we don't like and can use as dirt against a kid we want to get rid of'.
"I don't think they need to police what students are doing online," she said. "That's my job."
Given that most of the time, it's parental apathy being compensated for by the authorities, it's very telling that in this case parents are demanding to be given back their control.
Looks like we've got conflicting patents then, because I've got this other patent detailing a method for turning the benefits of a free cake provision service into shit and then forcing my paying customers on the other end to eat this shit, and also the shit smells.
No, you're just the first. I was hoping in vain that some people might read the explanation, with it being nice and high up, and save themselves the time they were about to waste trying to bring me back from the Dark Side.
Now, if you're responding to my joke with an even better joke, I concede the point to you, for your humor is several orders of magnitude beyond my level of comprehension.
But if, as I suspect, you've missed the fact that I was just fucking around with the word cake, then consider this post official notification of my intended meaning.
You're being very closed minded about this, aren't you. There are companies making billions off of sending cake through my pipes, and even though it's my infrastructure that I built, for some reason I'm not allowed to see any of that profit?
Oh man, they'd just love that. Your Eye-S-P could decide to prioritise pretty much anything they wanted, and they could stick the charge at either end too. Want to read a book today? "Sorry, as part of our QoS plan, we're deprioritising books in favor of good old fashioned Fox News and SUV adverts."
I've given it some extra thought, and I reckon it'd be a false sense of security anyway. Swiss bank accounts and under the table deals make that kind of legislation moot.
Stop ISPs from creating a conflict of interests by banning them from going into the content market at all. It'd kind of gut AOL, but you've got to learn take the bad with the good:p
Obviously, the situation already exists, so a simple ban wouldn't be enough. But in Microsoft's antitrust case, they considered splitting them up to fix just such an issue. The ISPs in the US have similar monopolies, right? So cut them up. AOL Internet and AOL Portal, or something.
No way we should pay twice for them to profit twice though. Screw that.
Wow, it's kinda unfair that my spam-filled scammer honeypot address on Yahoo survives to this day, despite near inactivity, and your important mail got deleted on you...
Come to think of it, I don't see how this post will help you or cheer you up at all.
To be fair to me, I was thinking about it in terms of the British system (I think it's a lot worse to be expelled here). Not that that's a good thing to do, but it's my only option. TV has forced a heck of a lot of knowledge of US law, politics and culture down my throat, but I don't seem to keep the useful bits.
But your post is interesting. Lacking any kids of my own, I've decided instead to hatch a plan to have someone else's kids over in the US kicked out of high school. It'll all balance out in the end.
Seriously, just how many companies have joined forces into pairs to defeat Google by now? It's getting old already.
And Yahoo can keep eBay for all I care. eBay's ads are irrelevant bullshit, and don't fit in with Google's stricter relevancy for other companies. I posted this image a while back (so if you must mod this up, make it Funny so I don't get karma from the same thing twice) , though it's not exclusively eBay.
One thing though - I can see it being a loss for Google. I bet that it's a pretty sweet deal they have there, using eBay links as filler when no more relevant ads are available.
Maybe that was the case 100000 years ago when humans first entered the scene, but nowadays the majority of humans aren't starving. Where have you been all this time?
I disagree with his grouping. The vast majority of the six billion doesn't give a shit about software bugs. They're primarily concerned with their ability to exchange services and products for money and vice versa, and if they do have free time, they don't spend it fretting about XP's bug count.
But if you are a software developer, you need to get into group one, where I am.
Or maybe even better would be for both groups to continue to exist. The Jedi need the Sith, and smartasses who don't worry about bugs need idealistic noobs who find them shocking. This sounds like the case of someone who's managed to become so surrounded by likeminded coworkers that he's completely convinced that his is the One True Way.
And do we really need that much whitespace on a news page? I know about that whole '10 words per line' usability mantra, but it looks fucking ridiculous. Why can't all the other website owners just think exactly like me?
Wow, look at all that rebuking. Do I win Slashdot? (IAJAFSS (I Am Just Another Fucking Smartass Student))
In short, MS has caught the rest of us napping, found an honest-to-god gap, and created something that fills it. Now we either start gathering lamb's blood to support their format, or we lock a load of people in a room with some computers and get a better open version out fast.
As amazing as that would be, it'd also be too easy and hilarious to 'disconnect' people at will. Radio is really vulnerable to DoS attacks, and my understanding is that the ham scene gets by on etiquette.
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My first reaction to that idea was that it's completely awesome, but I think maybe they'd do that vindictive thing schools do where they secretly blacklist the kid and look for other reasons to get at him later on.
Interesting linking this move to parenting. I guess this whole mess reinforces the idea of high school being little more than daycare. Instead of focusing on the teaching, they're working to extend their babysitting services. Is this like the beaurocratic equivalent of featuritis? Or is it some sort of megalomania that afflicts every single civil servant who gets a sniff of power?
The ambiguity of the criteria doesn't help either: 'Illegal' is one thing, but 'inappropriate' is another one they use (though not mentioned in the summary) and more or less gives them a license to discipline (oh, but only after some undisclosable anonymous source expresses 'concern', of course). I'm willing to bet that illegal means mostly slander against school employees, and inappropriate is 'anything else we don't like and can use as dirt against a kid we want to get rid of'.
Given that most of the time, it's parental apathy being compensated for by the authorities, it's very telling that in this case parents are demanding to be given back their control.Damn, how is it that the damn lawyers always win? Bastards!
Looks like we've got conflicting patents then, because I've got this other patent detailing a method for turning the benefits of a free cake provision service into shit and then forcing my paying customers on the other end to eat this shit, and also the shit smells.
No, you're just the first. I was hoping in vain that some people might read the explanation, with it being nice and high up, and save themselves the time they were about to waste trying to bring me back from the Dark Side.
Dear me, I do wish they would let me put a big foot icon in my posts. But then again, would anyone even notice?
But if, as I suspect, you've missed the fact that I was just fucking around with the word cake, then consider this post official notification of my intended meaning.
Oh man, they'd just love that. Your Eye-S-P could decide to prioritise pretty much anything they wanted, and they could stick the charge at either end too. Want to read a book today? "Sorry, as part of our QoS plan, we're deprioritising books in favor of good old fashioned Fox News and SUV adverts."
I'm still up for gutting AOL though.
Obviously, the situation already exists, so a simple ban wouldn't be enough. But in Microsoft's antitrust case, they considered splitting them up to fix just such an issue. The ISPs in the US have similar monopolies, right? So cut them up. AOL Internet and AOL Portal, or something.
No way we should pay twice for them to profit twice though. Screw that.
Come to think of it, I don't see how this post will help you or cheer you up at all.
Mod parent up (no, not my post, the AC). He's right. I'm a big moron. I yield to his incredible knowledge of TFA.
But your post is interesting. Lacking any kids of my own, I've decided instead to hatch a plan to have someone else's kids over in the US kicked out of high school. It'll all balance out in the end.
And Yahoo can keep eBay for all I care. eBay's ads are irrelevant bullshit, and don't fit in with Google's stricter relevancy for other companies. I posted this image a while back (so if you must mod this up, make it Funny so I don't get karma from the same thing twice) , though it's not exclusively eBay.
One thing though - I can see it being a loss for Google. I bet that it's a pretty sweet deal they have there, using eBay links as filler when no more relevant ads are available.
Well said, moron, but 800 million is not a majority, not matter how many times you say Africa.
Maybe that was the case 100000 years ago when humans first entered the scene, but nowadays the majority of humans aren't starving. Where have you been all this time?
And do we really need that much whitespace on a news page? I know about that whole '10 words per line' usability mantra, but it looks fucking ridiculous. Why can't all the other website owners just think exactly like me?
Wow, look at all that rebuking. Do I win Slashdot?
(IAJAFSS (I Am Just Another Fucking Smartass Student))
It's just a shame that 'in line' means that they'll take off the $ and replace it with a £. Fuckers. I want my £150 console.
In short, MS has caught the rest of us napping, found an honest-to-god gap, and created something that fills it. Now we either start gathering lamb's blood to support their format, or we lock a load of people in a room with some computers and get a better open version out fast.
PNG will make everything look good, but photographic data really bloats out the filesize, which is the niche that JPEG then fills.
As amazing as that would be, it'd also be too easy and hilarious to 'disconnect' people at will. Radio is really vulnerable to DoS attacks, and my understanding is that the ham scene gets by on etiquette.